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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK WILLIAM CHEETI-IAM, OF HYDE, ENGLAND.-

SEWING MACHINE FOR MAKING HAT-LININGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 627,050, dated June 13, 18991- Applioation filed November 25, 1898. Serial No. 697,431. (No model.)

To a, whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK WILLIAM CHEETHAM, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Norbury House, Hyde, in the county of Ohester,England,have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Sewing-Machines for Making Hat-Linings, (for which I have made application for patents in Great Britain, No. 12,709, dated June 7, 1898; inAustria, filed September 17, 1898; in Belgium, filed September 19, 1898; in France, filed August 22, 1898; in Germany, filed September 17, 1898, and in Italy, filed September 23,1898,) of which the following isa specification. 1

My invention relates to improvements in sewing-machines for makinghat-linings; and it consists in an improved arrangement of gearing for driving the plaiting-motion for the side linings.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan view, thelatter partly in section, of a sewing-machine embodying my improvements. Fig. 3 is a side view of the presser-foot and the plaitingblade. Fig. iis an end elevation of the turntable. Fig. 5 is across-section of the central portion of the hat-lining and its backing. Fig. 6 is a similar view illustrating the form assumed by the parts when the tip is clamped on the turn-table, and Fig. 7 is a plan of the slot-ted backing for the tip.

In the views, 1 denotes the bed-plate and frame of the machine; 2, the cloth-plate or feed-table; 3,the stitch-regulator; 4,the plaiting-blade; 5,the spring-controlled shaft; 6,the driving-shaft; 7, the driving pulley fixed thereon; 8, the reciprocating needle-arm; 9, the adjustable turn-table pivoted on the arm 10, and 11 the guide on which the arm with the turn-table can be traversed.

In carrying my invention into effect I fix a horizontal peg-wheel 12 and worm-wheel 13 on a stud supported and free to rotate in a bearing in the frame 1, and I'drivethe combined wheels 12 and 13 by a worm 14 on the driving-shaft 6. The horizontal wheel 12 has any convenient number of pegs 15 screwed or otherwise fixed vertically and adj ustably in its horizontal face, and as the wheel 12 is rotated each of these pegs 15 in turn comes in contact with and actuates a tappet 16,

fixed adjustably on the spring controlled shaft 5, which is thereby oscillated as many times during each rotation of the wheel 12 as there are pegs 15 on said wheel. Each time the spring-controlled shaft 5 is actuated the plaiting-blade 4ifeeds the side lining 17 up to the presser-foot 18- in the usual way,- and so. forms a plait in the side lining prior to its being sewed onto the tip or central portion 19 of the hat-lining,which is carried by the turntable 9. The number and size of the plaits can be determined by varying the number and position of the vertical pegs 15 carried by the horizontal wheel 12. Beneath the ruftling-blade 4 a shield M is arranged, and the ruffling-blade works back on this when re tracted. This shield is supported by abar i. The tip or central portion 19 of the hat is mounted on a backing 20, slotted at 21 (see Fig. 7) to receive one-half of the clamp-plate 22, which is pivoted at 23 to the turn-table 9 and is clamped over the backing 20 by a pivoted wedge 24, moved by a handle 25. This arrangement holds the tip ready for the side lining to be attached to it without the use of pins. This tip-holding means forms no part of this invention, being claimed in a copending application, Serial No. 710,064, dated March 22, 1899.

. Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

In combination with the sewing mechanism, a plaiting-blade, a horizontal spring-controlled shaft carrying the same, the drivingshaft, a horizontal face-wheel having upwardly-projecting pegs on its upper face, a tappet carried by the spring-controlled shaft and in the path of the pegs on the peg-wheel and means for driving the horizontal wheel comprising Worm and gearing between the same and the driving-shaft, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK WILLIAM CHEETHAM. Witnesses:

S. W. GILLETT, HERBERT R. ABBEY. 

